You might be surprised by the MILLIONS VDOT is overbudget

RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) — An anonymous VDOT worker reached out to CBS 6 claiming that contractors for the agency are wasting taxpayer money.

Snow removal is costly for VDOT, and costly for the taxpayers as VDOT has already gone through their snow budget.

In fact, they’re a hundred million dollars over budget because of the storms that hit Virginia in the past few months.

One reason why is that the 360 state contractors hired during major snow events work in 12-hour shifts to clear roads.

The anonymous worker hired by the contractor claimed he and other drivers spent three hours parked alongside the highway, when they were supposed to be clearing roads. And he said they charged the state for the time.

5 comments

Kat

Must be some slow news days….police officer with (horror) snow on his windshield (that was not illegal, BTW) and a sensationlized story about VDOT being over budget. C’mon news media, you can do better than this.

manalishi

Lets analyze this for what is REALLY is. After the bi-partisan robbery of VA taxpayers for the new transportation bill, the commonwealth has been raking in mountains of cash in real time figures. Under the new administration, it only took 3 months to for these stereotypical democrats to be $100 million over budget just for 1 department.